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Trimukhi Platform is a not-for-profit organisation founded in West Bengal, India. It arises from the desire to create a platform from where to act in three different directions: social work, artistic creations and theoretical research. Art and thought need to be produced by all strata of society so there is not only a diversity of propositions but also relevance and accuracy.

The Night of Theatre n°9 / La nuit des idées is a night-long festival of contemporary performing arts and inventive thought, that took place on Saturday 28th January 2017 at Trimukhi Cultural Centre in the Santhal tribal village of Borotalpada, West Bengal, India. During the night-long event, artists and thinkers from Kolkata, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Montréal, together with Santhal actors, dancers and musicians both showcased in situ performances and evolve in stimulative conversations about art and thought. The night-long program ended with a joyful multicultural dance party.

Trimukhi Platform and MACE join forces to offer -free of cost- a 3 days online workshop by French anthropologist Marc Hatzfeld: Visions of he land in India (and elsewhere), to be held from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May 2015. The reason being simply the situation in India: the possibility that the law regarding land acquisition may be changed as a consequence of which the stress will fall largely on the farmers as well as on the tribals. It is important to generate thinking on this matter, perhaps in a more inventive and creative way than what is currently being done by the media and politicians...

The Department of Sanskrit, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in collaboration with UGC-Academic Staff College, invites the French philosopher and Trimukhi Platform director Jean-Frédéric Chevallier to participate in the Refresher Course on "Performing Art : Tradition and Innovation", giving a lecture: Contemporary Theatre... What is it? (Towards a Theatre of Presenting),at TEQIP building, Jadavpur University, on 18th February 2015, 2 to 5 pm. The main question will be: If theatre has stopped representing and communicating, how to speak about what happens on stage?

Presence & Presenting is a 3 days + 3 weeks workshop for actors, dancers, directors and choreographers that the French artist and philosopher Jean-Frédéric Chevallier will give at Dew Drops Dance Studio in Kolkata in February and March 2015. The purpose of it is simple: to give a hint on other possibilities and potentialities for the stage. What to do with the presence of the performers? What to do with the fact that audience is present too? How to compose a performing act without trying to convey a message, but just presenting? These questions will be attended both through practice and reflexion.

Trimukhi Platform has started an innovative program aimed at giving to 10 young people in Borotalpada village the tools and knowledge necessary to undertake important responsibilities in Trimukhi Cultural Centre. The 1st session courses in July 2014 was given by Yazel Parra Nahmenes from Barcelona Theatre Institute (Spain), Jean-Frédéric Chevallier and Sukla Bar Chevallier from Trimukhi Platform; the 2nd session in December 2014 by Utsarjana Mutsuddi and Sanmoy Karmakar from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India). The 3rd session was held in May 2015 and the 4th in October.

In September 2014, sixteen Cuban visual artists, thespians, dancers, video-makers, musicians and scholars were rehearsing together with Jean-Frédéric Chevallier so to prepare a transdisciplinary performance, part of the R/T Poetry serie. Presentations took place on 27th September at Teatro Buendia, La Havana, Cuba.

Produced by Laboratorio Ibsen,French Embassy in Cuba, National Cuban Council for Performing Arts, Casa Editorial Tablas-Alarcos in collaboration withTrimukhi Platform and Teatro Buendía

TheNight of Theatre n°8was held on 14th Feb 2015 atTrimukhi Cultural Centrein the Santal tribal village of Borotalpada (West Midnapore, West Bengal, India). During the night-long event, artists from La Habana, Paris, Kolkata and Mexico city, together with tribal actors, dancers and musicians showcased in different places around and inside Trimukhi Cultural Centre, theatre, music and dance performances as well as a double sound installation and happenings. For this 8th edition, a reduced number of guests audience from Kolkata was received so to favor exchange and dialogue with the villagers. The program ended with a multicultural dance party. The bus returned at 5:45 AM.

The 7th edition of the Night of Theatre took place on 15th February 2014 atTrimukhi Cultural Centre. Artists from Paris, Bogotá, Kolkata, Mexico city and Borotalpada village presented outside the Centre theatre, dance and music performances as well as an experimental film. Two of these stage works were the result of a 12 days rehearsals process together with 15 villagers. Journalist Mohua Das reported the event for The Telegraph: "There was something magical about making one’s way through the backwoods with torchlights and settling down on the ground under the open skies, feeling the caress of a wintry breeze and watching performances in the dark — imaginative and untamed."

Visions of the land in India: Approach of an anthropological survey is an online workshop offered by Professor Marc Hatzfeld, a French anthropologist working on social and urban issues whose recent work encompasses India. Designed and based on Moodle tools, pedagogy will alternate between guided discussions with suggested readings and a direct and concreat engagement of the participants with the ‘vision of land’ through interviews of key respondents. The objective is to introduce ‘land’ to the learners through an anthropological lens and provide an understanding of the lived experiences of it.

Flying Bamboo in a Santal Village is an art instalation made of bamboo pieces that the Mexican Alejandro Orozco designed and constructed together with villagers from Bortalpada Santal Village: Girish Soren, Chandrai Murmu, Bhimcharan Hansda, Salkhan Hansda, Motilal Hansda, Gopal Hansda, and the advice and help from Himadri Mondal, Raima Mondal, Sukla Bar and Lorena Rojas. Located on the north side of Trimukhi Cultural Centre, it was inaugurated during the Sixth Night of Theatre, on 9th February 2013.

TheFourth Night of Theatre took place on 5th September 2009 in Theatre UNAM, Mexico City, from 7 pm to 7 am of the next day. It was the première of 4 stage works by Rubén Ortiz (Mexico), Jean-Frédéric Chevallierand Matthieu Mével(France, India, Italy), Víctor Viviescas (Colombia), Joseph Danan (France). Between each stage work, a musical performance was proposed by Rogelio Sosa (Mexico). The four stage works continued presenting in Theatre Juan Ruizde Alarcón until 25th October 2009.